I’m a product architect, passionate about innovative electronics developed for people and not just for specs on a booklet. I’ve started my self-dependant adventure with DIY open-source projects in Russia (Pixelkit, Glitchy, Lo-rez) and during past 3 years all my time was dedicated to Lightpack. Lightpack is a personal product that managed to get funded with $0.5 M on Kickstarter (this campaign is still the most successfull Russian campaign on kickstarter.com, as of today) and that evolved into a matured startup. For the sake of that I had to organize R&D in Russia, production and logistics in China, to acquire partners all around the world and of course to carry out thousands of sales. As a partner and product designer I left the project in May 2014, but by that time we’ve fulfilled all our campaign obligations and manufactured and sold more than 13k Lightpacks worldwide.